- IATA
- CMB
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- VCBI
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1944
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 10M
- in 2019
History & name
Opened in 1944, Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport sits 28 km from Colombo. It recorded 10 million passengers in 2019 and has one runway of 3,350 m, at an elevation of 30 feet.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport
- Serves
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- City centre
- 28 km from Colombo
- Opened
- 1944
- Passengers
- 10 million in 2019
- Runways
- 1 runway, 3,350 m
- Elevation
- 30 ft (9 m)
- Website
- airport.lk ↗
Where it sits
7.2°N, 79.9°E puts CMB in the northern hemisphere, 798 km from the equator and 9,209 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 483rd most northerly, which makes it the 179th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 7.2°S, 100.1°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Seymour Galapagos Ecological (GPS) in Ecuador, still 1,324 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Mattala Rajapaksa (HRI), 169 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from CMB
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | LHR | 8,715 km | 11h 20m |
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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